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The Titus-Will Families Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Titus-Will Families Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$216kHealth$173kFood & Nutrition$137kHousing & Shelter$123kRecreation & Sports$122kHuman Services$90kArts & Culture$39kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A CHANCE TO PLAY FOUNDATION$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY$15,000
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION$10,000
THE FOOD CONNECTION$9,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$8,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,000
NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY$6,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MULTICARE - PAUL TITUS MEMORIAL$5,000
FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE$5,000
YMCA WOMEN'S SHELTERRAGS$5,000
TACOMA GENERAL-MARY BRIDGE HOSPITAL$5,000
FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION - LEON TITUS MEMORIAL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEXT CHAPTER: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%A CHANCE TO PLAY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%NEXT CHAPTER: $5k → 11%GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%NEXT CHAPTER: $5k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%THE FOOD CONNECTION: $9k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%THE FOOD CONNECTION: $9k → 9%THE FOOD CONNECTION: $9k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%THE FOOD CONNECTION: $9k → 9%THE FOOD CONNECTION: $7k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $8k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $8k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $8k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $8k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $7k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $5k → 9%NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $25k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $25k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 36 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+116%

Still filing today

44%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +37%
  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +48%
  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -10%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

Acting as a catalyst, connector, and knowledge facilitator to build racially equitable, accessible, inclusive pierce county where all people can shape and activate the systems that affect our communities, now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
2
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
3
Mentor Washington

To promote, support and expand quality mentoring that fosters postive youth development, academic success, and job and career readiness.

Philanthropy
4
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
5
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
6
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
7
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
10
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

—
11
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services
12
Pacific Science Center Foundation

Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Interim Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $102,000 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks FoundationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $50,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUNDTHE FOOD CONNECTION: $49,000 · OtherTHE FOOD CONNECTIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $44,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherFT LEWIS FISHER HOUSETACOMA GENERAL-MARY BRIDGE HOSPITAL: $37,500 · OtherFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION - LEON TITUS MEMORIAL: $34,000 · OtherMULTICARE - PAUL TITUS MEMORIAL: $34,000 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation: $32,500 · OtherNOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY: $32,000 · OtherYMCA WOMEN'S SHELTERRAGS: $31,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherPACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS: $25,000 · Other+19 more: $190,000 · Other+19 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …TREEHOUSE: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE RESCUE MISSION: $51,000 · Housing & ShelterEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $50,000 · Food & NutritionEDGE FOUNDATION: $22,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $11,500 · HealthPediatric Interim Care Center: $10,000 · HealthCollege Success Foundation: $18,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $14,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $20,500 · International
Other$731,000Youth Development$126,000Housing & Shelter$51,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Health$43,500Education$32,000International$20,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $120,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $102,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $51,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS: $25,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEDGE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $14,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPOINTE DU HOC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS ↗
  • Who funds EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds POINTE DU HOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Bamford FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Baker FoundationSequoia FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiKorum for Kids Founda…Multicare Health Syst…
Seattle FoundationWA20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Baker Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Korum for Kids Foundation · Multicare Health System

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Titus-Will Families Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Titus-Will Families Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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